pdp8@athena.mit.edu (John W.F. McClain) (11/10/90)
I have made 2 posting like this before, but I think they got lost. Sorry if you have seen this. I want to "play" with 680n0s a little, mabye even build a simple m68k box. Does any one know where I should start? Besides the m68k data manual are then any good books on designing/building with the m68k (as opposed to programing the m68k)? Thanks in advance John W.F. McClain pdp8@athena.mit.edu
sam@chook.ua.oz (Sam Sangster) (11/10/90)
From article <1990Nov9.212649.27565@athena.mit.edu>, by pdp8@athena.mit.edu (John W.F. McClain): > I have made 2 posting like this before, but I think they got lost. > Does any one know where I should start? Besides the m68k data manual are then > any good books on designing/building with the m68k (as opposed to programing > the m68k)? > Have you seen Alan Wilcox's book "68000 Microcomputer Systems: Designing and Troubleshooting", Prentice-Hall, 1987 ? This book will probably be of some use, being a "recipe book" for building a 68000 based system, with all the right components. Hope this helps, Sam Sangster | Internet: sam@cs.adelaide.edu.au Apple Consortium | AppleLink: AUST0153 University of Adelaide, Australia | Ph: 61 8 228 5441 Fax: 61 8 223 1206
6500spyk@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Chris Brooks) (11/11/90)
In article <1990Nov9.212649.27565@athena.mit.edu> pdp8@athena.mit.edu (John W.F. McClain) writes: >I want to "play" with 680n0s a little, mabye even build a simple m68k box. >Does any one know where I should start? Besides the m68k data manual are then >any good books on designing/building with the m68k (as opposed to programing >the m68k)? Someone already mentioned this reference before, but I guess you missed it. Alan Wilcox's 68000_Microcomputer_Systems:_Designing_and_Troubleshooting is an excellent guide to bringing up a 68k system. There's also a book called (I think) Interfacing_the_68000, but the author's name escapes me. Good luck. -- Christopher L. Brooks 6500spyk@ucsbuxa.bitnet UC - Santa Barbara brooks@faulty.ucsb.edu
sadler@hpscdc.scd.hp.com (John Sadler) (11/13/90)
The following book has excellent coverage of the 68K family. The example design is based on a 68008. _Microprocessor Based Design_ Michael Slater 1990 Mayfield Pub Co Mtn View, Ca.
lyman@motcid.UUCP (Michael Lyman) (11/15/90)
pdp8@athena.mit.edu (John W.F. McClain) writes: >I want to "play" with 680n0s a little, mabye even build a simple m68k box. >Does any one know where I should start? Besides the m68k data manual are then >any good books on designing/building with the m68k (as opposed to programing >the m68k)? Give Motorola Semiconductors in Tempe, Az. a call at (602)994-6561 and ask about their current applications manuals. Motorola is always releasing applications notes about all sorts of things and these, in turn are collected and put into a book, available to those who ask. Some keys words you may want to use when talking to these folks might be: 68000 to 6800 family interface techniques; application notes for a zero wait state 68000 system; using the 68230 Programable Interface/Timer as a serial interface. These particular application notes come to mind since they include schematics, parts and explanation for simple but complete 68000 systems that could be built in very short order. If you really want to jump into it, ask these people about the book "Microprocessor Systems Design" by Alan Clements, Motorola #TB 318. This book explains just about every aspect of fundamental 68K design, plus a few advanced topics. This book even gives an assembler listing of a system monitor for a 68K computer that was completely detailed in the book. Good luck.... -- ========================================+===================================== "Many of the truths we cling to depend | Michael Lyman, Motorola C.I.D greatly upon our own point of view" | Arlington Heights, Il --Obi-Wan Kenobi | ...uunet!motcid!lyman
tom@afthree.as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky) (11/16/90)
A recent request was made about good sources of info for someone wanting to build a 680x0 system, a book I have found to be very basic and practical is A. D. Wilcox 68000 Microcomputer Systems, Designing and Troubleshooting by Prentice-Hall, 1987 ISBN 0-13-811399-8 Our science library has a host of others, but this one takes you by the hand and has you actually build a 68000 cpu on a (*groan*) S100 bus card. Even though the S100 bus is horribly brain-damaged, it has the advantage of being the current computer junkyard bargain, so you could easily accumulate the needed peripherals to compose a working system. Then you can write the software ......